Welcome

Welcome to the South Devon group of Amnesty International. We are based in Totnes and one of almost 300 local groups that operate in the UK. We contribute to Amnesty International's work to defend human rights around the world.

Amnesty International is a worldwide voluntary movement of people who campaign for human rights. It is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion. Its vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.

Amnesty International's purpose
We are ordinary people from around the world standing up for humanity and human rights. Our purpose is to protect individuals wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied.

Amnesty's campaigns really make a difference. Many former Prisoners of Conscience, now released, have testified to this:

“When the first two hundred letters came, the guards gave me back my clothes. Then the next two hundred letters came, and the prison director came to see me. When the next pile of letters arrived, the director got in touch with his superior. The letters kept coming: three thousand of them. The President was informed. The letters still kept arriving and the President called the prison and told them to let me go.” 
Letter from a former prisoner of conscience from the Dominican Republic.

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